Isaiah Maket is a thorough researcher with a decade of extensive research, teaching, training, and capacity-building experience. His research interests include socioeconomic themes such as climate change adaptation, mitigation and vulnerabilities, sustainable development, gender and social inclusion in climate adaptation, financing and advocacy, climate shocks-induced energy poverty and multidimensional poverty. He also focuses on social interventions such as cash transfers and financial inclusion strategies and their impact on agricultural sustainability, women empowerment, clean energy access, health deprivations, out-of-pocket health spending, mental health and child development. 

Maket has a PhD in Economics from the University of Szeged, Hungary (June 2024), a Masters in Economics (2018) and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Statistics (2015) from Chuka University, Kenya. He is a Stipendium Hungaricum Scholar. He is highly proficient in designing data tools and data collection using SurveyCTO, Kobo Collect, and ODK Kit, as well as statistical analysis using STATA, SAS, R-Program, Matlab, SPSS, and Excel. With evidence of a multidisciplinary approach to research, Dr. Maket brings an extensive contribution to insightful policy initiatives across Africa and the world at large.  

His current role as a Research Associate at ARIN is to support and lead the implementation of gender and social inclusion (GESIS) analysis in climate adaptation and mitigation financing-related projects. Currently, He’s supporting the GESI implementation in the Climate Financing Landscape and Locally-Led Adaptation Metrics for Africa (LAMA) projects financed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) at Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN). With his quest for an equitable society, Dr Maket engages in local and international partnership research projects that focus on climate adaptation and mitigation, agricultural sustainability, poverty alleviation, human capital development, resource mobilization, training and capacity building. With strong trackable research, report writing and knowledge translation skills, Dr Maket remains a key pillar in ensuring a climate-resilient Africa.